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Written by Meldrik on 2024-10-15 at 13:25

A Travel Media Server?

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Written by barcaxavi@lemmy.world on 2024-10-16 at 06:15

As others already wrote, I would go with the Plex server at home and using the “Download” feature to have some content available offline for the times you don’t have internet.

You can actually set a limit for the size of the download library and individually set video and audio quality for the files.

Seen raspberry pi mentioned some times, I don’t have one, so maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think there would be an easy way to power it up on a train for example.

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Written by 486@lemmy.world on 2024-10-16 at 06:54

Seen raspberry pi mentioned some times, I don’t have one, so maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think there would be an easy way to power it up on a train for example.

You could farily easily power it from a USB power bank. At least up until the Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi 5 with its weird 5 V / 5 A power requirement is a different beast. They should have gone with something standard like 9 V / 3 A PD. It might still work ok if you don’t power lots of peripherals with it.

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Written by barcaxavi@lemmy.world on 2024-10-16 at 10:54

Peripherals are one thing, handling concurrent streams, transcoding… is another one.

So in theory, a Pi can be kept alive with a power bank, but OP is expecting (as I understood) multiple hours of streaming (with “local” only access) , which includes the above tasks for multiple concurrent streams. How big of a power bank we’re talking about and how long will it last?

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Written by 486@lemmy.world on 2024-10-17 at 05:10

When you use a typical 74 Wh (“20000 mAh”) power bank, you can expect more than 12 hours of runtime, if your average power draw stays at or below 5 W. Of course you aren’t going to do much transcoding with a Pi in any case, but multiple concurrent streams shouldn’t be much of an issue.

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Written by barcaxavi@lemmy.world on 2024-10-17 at 05:42

Yeah, I was also wondering about the transcoding.

And thanks for the power draw comment, great to know. Sounds manageable.

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